Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definite explanation for Blass's sudden downfall--baseball people will tell you simply that he was not "in the groove," which explains nothing at all. Angell speculates that Blass was unnerved by the burden of team leadership that he felt pushed on him by the untimely death of Roberto Clemente...
...Died. Roberto Rossellini, 71, Italian film director who introduced neo-realistic films during the post-World War II period; of an apparent heart attack after returning from the Cannes Film Festival; in Rome. Rossellini made his reputation with Open City, a film clandestinely made in Italy in 1944, and followed this success with Paisan, Germany, Year Zero and dozens of other films and TV movies. His enduring companion was Actress Anna Magnani, who is buried in his family mausoleum, but he also had a highly publicized affair with Ingrid Bergman. Finally married in 1950, they parted...
...personality pieces on Cuban-born Dancer Fernando Bujones, numero uno at the American Ballet Theater, Rodeo Star Leo Camarillo, Spanish-born Fashion Designer Fernando Sanchez, Miami Newscaster Emilio Milian, who continues to speak out against Cuban terrorists despite a bomb attack that blew off both his legs, and Archbishop Roberto Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M., the highest-ranking Latino prelate in the U.S. Regular features include fiction or poetry, a gallery of art or photography, a food and crafts column, and a cross-the-country regional news report...
...times tragedy permanently granitizes the athlete at the top of the mountain. One need look no farther than baseball's Roberto Clemente or auto racing's Peter Revson as examples of what A.E. Housman was trying to say in "To an Athlete Dying Young" when he penned "Now you will not swell the rout/Of lads who wore their honor...
...help) in 1963, many Katangese soldiers fled across the border to Angola. Eventually they joined forces with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), largely because their old enemy, Zaïrian President Mobutu Sese Seko, was supporting a rival Angolan guerrilla group, Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). Now, apparently, Agostinho Neto's M.P.L.A. government is helping the Katangese to even an old score with Mobutu...